Retail Banking Job Trends

Retail Banking
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Retail Banking in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Retail Banking over the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 575 587
Rank change year-on-year -20 +12 +48
Permanent jobs citing Retail Banking 52 133 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.25% 0.22%
As % of the General category 0.15% 0.37% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 19 40 98
10th Percentile £65,000 £55,250 £57,988
25th Percentile £65,625 £72,500 £62,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £86,650 £79,632
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +8.81% +9.12%
75th Percentile £100,625 £122,500 £91,934
90th Percentile £118,750 £125,000 £128,874
UK excluding London median annual salary £90,000 £85,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% +13.33% +20.00%

All General Skills
UK

Retail Banking falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 35,238 35,923 33,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 58.93% 66.18% 62.01%
Number of salaries quoted 19,103 16,460 24,380
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,100 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

Retail Banking
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Retail Banking relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Retail Banking job vacancy trend in the UK

Retail Banking
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Retail Banking

Retail Banking
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Retail Banking over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Retail Banking in the UK

Retail Banking
Top 7 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Retail Banking within the UK over the 6 months to 8 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -5 51 £82,500 -2.94% 12
London +9 50 £82,500 -17.50% 11
Work from Home +59 9 £112,500 +18.88% 9
UK excluding London +18 2 £90,000 +5.88% 4
North of England +7 1 - -
North East +3 1 - -
Scotland -12 1 £90,000 -28.00% 1

Retail Banking
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.85%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 35 (67.31%) Azure
2 32 (61.54%) AWS
2 32 (61.54%) GCP
3 5 (9.62%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.62%) Snowflake
4 4 (7.69%) Alation
4 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (7.69%) Cloud Composer
4 4 (7.69%) GitHub
5 3 (5.77%) PaaS
6 2 (3.85%) Apigee
6 2 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (57.69%) Data Lake
1 30 (57.69%) Metadata
2 5 (9.62%) Power BI
2 5 (9.62%) Tableau
3 4 (7.69%) BigQuery
3 4 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.69%) DataStage
3 4 (7.69%) QlikView
4 1 (1.92%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) ER Studio
1 4 (7.69%) ERwin
1 4 (7.69%) PowerDesigner
General
1 47 (90.38%) Banking
2 43 (82.69%) Finance
3 32 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (50.00%) Financial Institution
4 26 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
6 4 (7.69%) Retail
7 1 (1.92%) German Language
7 1 (1.92%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Law
7 1 (1.92%) Marketing
7 1 (1.92%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (59.62%) Architect
2 30 (57.69%) Data Architect
3 7 (13.46%) Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Business Change Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) Business Change Business Analyst
5 4 (7.69%) GCP Architect
5 4 (7.69%) GCP Data Architect
5 4 (7.69%) Lead
5 4 (7.69%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Solutions Architect - Google Cloud Platform
5 4 (7.69%) Transformation Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (3.85%) Sales Director
6 2 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.77%) .NET
2 2 (3.85%) Spring
2 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.69%) Management Information System
1 4 (7.69%) Reinsurance
2 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.92%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (1.92%) IVR
3 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (65.38%) Agile
2 31 (59.62%) Data Modelling
2 31 (59.62%) Migration
3 30 (57.69%) Data Architecture
3 30 (57.69%) Data Management
3 30 (57.69%) Data Strategy
3 30 (57.69%) Metadata Management
4 27 (51.92%) Commercialisation
5 26 (50.00%) Asset Management
5 26 (50.00%) Business Development
5 26 (50.00%) Cost Management
5 26 (50.00%) Data Migration
5 26 (50.00%) Data Privacy
5 26 (50.00%) Innovative Thinking
5 26 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
5 26 (50.00%) Physical Data Model
6 11 (21.15%) Decision-Making
7 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
8 8 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (13.46%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.54%) SQL
2 5 (9.62%) Java
3 4 (7.69%) C#
4 2 (3.85%) Python
5 1 (1.92%) Go
5 1 (1.92%) R
Qualifications
1 30 (57.69%) Azure Certification
2 26 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 11 (21.15%) Degree
4 5 (9.62%) Master's Degree
5 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (7.69%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Databricks
3 4 (7.69%) Google
3 4 (7.69%) IBM
3 4 (7.69%) Informatica
4 1 (1.92%) Qualtrics